The Brontë Sisters

Hollywood has a vampire problem, and it’s a studio head.February 1986. A telegram sealed in black wax arrives from Sterling Vale, president of Golden Fang Pictures, with a postscript that makes Anne’s scarred hand burn. The Haworth Hellcats board a plane for Los Angeles: Charlotte, with her sword and her temper; Emily, with her silver arm and a taste for trouble; and Anne, with a scar that sees too much. They are joined by a Professor with a sewing machine and a grudge, a Cajun priestess, and an Irish Garda inspector on 41 days’ leave.Vale has been turning Hollywood’s most beautiful people into obedient, silver-eyed 'background players' for sixty years, and now he is building his masterpiece, a film that will air on every television in the world on the night of the Golden Reel Awards. He wants to show it to a billion people at once. He wants Anne to aim it.From a burning Bel Air mansion to a battle of the bands on the Sunset Strip, from the freeways to the Hollywood Sign, the Hellcats take on Vale’s thralls, a rapier-wielding matinee idol, a poison-penned gossip columnist and a vault of flammable nitrate film. They find unlikely allies: a faded scream queen, a mob enforcer with a cigar, a stuntwoman with a score to settle and a hot rod called the Black Maria.In a town where everyone is looking at someone else, the Brontë Sisters have to decide what they’re willing to lose.